Monday, February 28, 2011

Blag Post #4 Googling Google

Let me preempt this post with a story. Last semester I had interviewed with SC Johnson and everything went well, so they sent me an acceptance letter, but, they sent it to the wrong email address: andrewbutts@gmail.com instead of andrewdbutts@gmail.com. With nothing more than a "go badgers" comment to go off of, the andrew butts who received my acceptance letter, googled the badgers, found the wisc website, people searched me, found my email address and forwarded me the letter. We then started an amusing penpalling conversation which revealed a most interesting philosophy, rather than considering himself the "real" andrew butts and others as "imposters," he considered himself just another Andrew Butts in a league of extraordinary Andrew Butts's and then sent me a link to yet another Andrew Butts that is one of Enterprise's Success Stories. Long story short, I'm not the only Andrew Butts out there, my penpal is a software engineer at pixar and the other guy is a regional HR manager at Enterprise. Trying to find vestiges of myself was difficult as I keep my privacy locked down on social media. I would suggest trying to find yourself on Spokeo though too, as it's all about invading your privacy. I fortunately cannot be found on there either.

http://www.spokeo.com/search?q=Andrew%20Butts#Wisconsin
http://picturesofsuccess.enterprise.com/myStoryC.asp?story=111

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